The 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2015) is going to be held from 15 to 17 December 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The conference aims to bring together researchers and experts in Knowledge Management, Software Engineering and Information Systems to share their ideas, experiences and insights. We welcome researchers and practitioners from academia, industries, research institutions, R&D enterprise services and governmental organisations to exchange innovative contributions around the conference topics. This conference series was started in an international collaboration context between research professionals in Western and Asian countries in Chiang Mai, Thailand 2006. Subsequently, the next SKIMA conferences were organized in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2008; Fez, Morocco in 2009; Paro, Bhutan in 2010; Benevento, Italy in 2011, Chengdu, China in 2012, Chiang Mai Thailand in 2013 and Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2014. The research topics of SKIMA 2015 are very significant for developed and fast growing region.